Columbo: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Columbo Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Murder, a Self Portrait
Nov 25, 1989 · 93 min
A famous artist, Max Barsini, lives with his wife Vanessa and a beautiful live-in model named Julie at his beach house/studio. Max's ex-wife Louise lives in the beach house next do
Columbo Cries Wolf
Jan 20, 1990 · 98 min
Columbo is asked to investigate the disappearance of Dian Hunter, director of a men's magazine. Naturally, the prime suspect is her lover and co-editor Sean Brantley, who spends l
Agenda for Murder
Feb 10, 1990 · 97 min
Columbo matches wits with a brilliant attorney responsible for the murder of the one man who could stifle his meteoric political career.
Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo
Mar 31, 1990 · 98 min
Columbo unwittingly becomes part of a deranged woman's diabolical plot to destroy the two men she believes responsible for her husband's death in prison. After murdering one, she m
Uneasy Lies the Crown
Apr 28, 1990 · 97 min
While investigating the death of a popular actor, Columbo must outwit a cunning dentist, who has set up his wife for a murder in order to keep up his image and expensive lifestyle.
Murder in Malibu
May 14, 1990 · 94 min
An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder look like robbery gone awry.